Memorial Day weekend always makes me feel so grateful to those who made the ultimate sacrifice serving our nation so that we can enjoy the freedoms we have today.  I also feel another type of freedom — we were in a different place in this pandemic a year ago and I am enjoying new freedoms that we weren’t able to experience just a short time ago.

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Here’s your dinner planner for the week:

Meatless Monday (Memorial Day): Lentil and grilled eggplant salad, Tasty Turkey Burgers, Wild Salmon Burgers, The Best Grilled Flank Steak, Grilled Vegetables with Lemon-Basil Dressing or Chopped Grilled Veg Salad, Sparkling Blackberry Shrub, Apricot-Cherry Almond Crisp, Grilled chicken with cherry tomato vinaigrette, Grilled lemon-mustard-rosemary chicken, Sweet and spicy carrots with pistachios and feta, Asada mushroom tacos, roasted strawberry bruschetta (or see this post for more ideas for your memorial day bbq)

Tuesday: (use those leftovers!) Tomato, Roasted pepper and Basil Strata (use leftover burger or hot dog buns, if you have them from the weekend), arugula salad with simple lemon/olive oil dressing (or leftover dressing from the salads yesterday, if you have any leftover grilled vegetables, mix those in as well)

Wednesday: raw kale salad with citrus dressing, parchment baked halibut with cilantro and ginger

Thursday: Instant pot chicken tinga p. 199 with pinto bean tostadas p. 277  from QTQ

Friday: one pot farro with cauliflower and golden raisins, miso roasted eggplant

Saturday brunch: cherry cacao açaí bowl

Sunday: Chicken Shawarma p. 188 from KM, with accompaniments (lavash or cauliflower rice, lettuce, tomato, cucumber, olives, tahini, yogurt). I have also used the spice mixture + 1 tsp garlic powder and 2 Tbs. olive oil on cauliflower florets and done a roasted cauliflower shawarma!

 

Heres’s what you can do ahead if it helps you:

Sunday:

Since there are several options for Memorial day, you can make a marinade, dressing, assemble patties, wash and prep veggies. Make crisp topping or dessert.

Tuesday:

Wash and strip kale

Cook beans if making from scratch

Wednesday:

Make miso mixture and store in the fridge

Cut cauliflower into florets

Slice onion

You can make the entire farro dish ahead of time and reheat

Thursday:

Roast eggplant and reheat if you don’t want to make the day of

Friday:

Make marinade for shawarma

Make tahini or yogurt sauce

 

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